ABOVE: Power leads Castroneves – and the car he started the weekend in – on race day. Will Power went into the 2009 season as little more than Roger Penske's contingency plan. Seven years later, he returns to Long Beach – the site of his first podium for the legendary...

If you watched Will Power earn his first and long overdue Verizon IndyCar Series championship on Saturday night in Fontana, there are probably a few visuals that stood out throughout the evening.We had Will's wife Liz chewing away at an empty water bottle throughout the race, wringing its little plastic...